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In the end, Williams secured the 5-7, 6-2, 7-6(4) victory to book her place in the final, but not before an injury to her upper left leg and a testy Vinci almost derailed her progress in the third set. Now tied at five-games-all, both players were desperately trying to finish...

Vinci added sarcastically. Williams got in an indecipherable last word.

At Wimbledon Federer had hit the heights in his crushing semi-final victory over Andy Murray before running into Djokovic.

Anderson, who won his third career title two weeks ago at Winston-Salem, is the first South African in the US Open’s last-eight since Wayne Ferreira in 1992.

Djokovic is already a legend, but a few more injury-free years could see him become the world’s greatest-ever player.

Novak Djokovic is a double- digit Grand Slam winner.

“Also, I was thinking it was going to be nice to be on court with her, and maybe lose, but for a moment so special for everyone, for her, for history”, she said.

Not since the 2010 US Open has Murray crashed out so early in a Grand Slam event, a run of 18 consecutive quarter-finals ended by the lanky African, who fired 25 aces and 81 winners.

Djokovic acknowledged the antipathy he received from the New York crowd was a distraction and over the course of three hours and 20 minutes “you do have some ups and downs in concentration”. Federer believes that the Serbian tennis star can win more Grand Slam titles...

“Roger showed why he’s a champion coming from 5-2 in the fourth set“. Djokovic however says that he expected such a reception from the crowd because Federer deserves all this and he hopes in the future he also receives such reception.

At the trophy presentation, Pennetta floored the sellout crowd by announcing that she plans to retire.

The 22-year-old reigning Masters and US Open champion stumbled to a two-over 73 which meant he missed consecutive cuts as an amateur or professional on the USPGA Tour the first time in his young career.

Or would such a problem force him to consider retirement? Consequently he was running roughshod through the majors. He suffered a first-round loss to Chardy on the Australian Open, exclusively to bounce him in Portugal 4 months later.

“When we want to go out on the court, we want to perform better and that’s what drives us”. She defends that title over the next fortnight.

“If I will not be in the finals, then I want her to win, ” said Halep, who routed Williams in last October’s end-of-season WTA championships.